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How to configure SpamAssasin

You've probably sorted this out for yourself by now (or left in despair), but here's the information.

1. You don't have to turn spam assassin on: it runs automatically.
2. Marking an email as junk will enable the program to learn: if it has any suspicious feature, then spam assassin will pay more attention to that feature in future.
3. Look at ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs
This is where you can add your own configuration, by making any particular test more sensitive, lowering the threshhold for marking a suspect email as junk, or even adding your own tests. I have added